On Sep 28, 2007, at 9:51 , Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: > Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3221#comment:6>
I wonder if comparative studies have been made with the XO screen? My gut feeling is that it is more comparable to paper-based text books than CRTs. Now Colbert says gut feeling is all you need, but maybe some research is still in order. I found this overview of research articles about "Accessible Instructional Materials": http://nimas.cast.org/downloads/nimas_anno_research-2005-07-15.doc (see below for an excerpt for those who can't read .doc) by Nicole Strangman of NIMAS Centers, which incidentally is just 15 mi north of Boston ... Apparently there is more research about children with learning disabilities than about "normal" kids, but what helps those children can't be bad for others, right? - Bert - Hughes, L. E., & Wilkins, A. J. (2000). Typography in children's reading schemes may be suboptimal: Evidence from measures of reading rate. Journal of Research in Reading, 23(3), 314. This study investigated the effect of text size and spacing on the reading speed and accuracy of children age five to eleven. Reading accuracy was significantly higher with large versus small text size. There was a similar direct relationship between reading speed and text size for children five to seven years old. Fuchs, L. S., & Fuchs, D. (2000). Using objective data sources to enhance teacher judgments about test accommodations. Exceptional Children, 67(1), 67. This quantitative research study compared the overall test performance of students with and without learning disabilities under standard conditions and with each of three accommodations: extended time, large print, and read aloud. Large print test accommodations significantly improved the overall test performance for students with and without learning disabilities. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel